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I have been reading on here about the new crappie limit of 20 on Ky. lake, but when I go to the Fish & Wildlife Dept. website it still shows 30 for the daily creel. I plan on going to Ky. lake in Kentucky and Tennesse before too long so I want to make sure of the creel limits. Any help or links on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Crappie Snatcher
Thanks for the link Biggerbear. If I didnt get on here I wouldnt even have known because I havent seen it anywhere. I live in Scottsville which is 20 miles from Bowling Green. It isnt worth driving all the way down there for 20 crappie. I guess I'll just concentrate on fishing Barren River lake. Its only 15 minutes away......lol. Thanks again for the info.
FWIW maybe they should put a boat limit on instead of per person, 30 or 40 per boat.
How about zero between 10am and 4pm. LOL:)
Oh yeah one more thing. Is this just in kentucky part of ky lake or is it the tenn. part too. I fish both sometimes the same day. Blood River in Ky. and Panther Bay in Tenn. thanks
I did the Google and found this. If I read it correct it will be 30 crappie(All Species)10" min. size.KY Lake in Tennessee http://www.state.tn.us/twra/pdfs/fishguide.pdf
What Kentucky has done with the limits is the correct thing to do. It's about safeguarding the resources and providing quality fish in the river systems. TENN. needs to follow because like you say, if I can't go and catch a cooler full in Kentucky, mind as well hop the line and catch them there. I hope that we can impress on TWRA that we need a 20 fish, 12 in. min length limit to help keep producing quality fish. IT SHOULD BE DONE!
I'm going to Grenada for three days and I don't care if it's twenty a day or not. Never been and want a chance at catching a hog.
I'm not saying we don't want people coming and fishing from out of state...that isn't the case but if the reasoning is what has been stated above Tenn. is going to have a problem.
The Hound
For your information I was fishing the Tenn. part along time before I was fishing the Ky part. I am not hoping the line.
Fellas, i've come down to Ky lake at least one week every spring for the last 20 years. When i first started coming down, it was for the number of big fish. After about 5 trips, that changed. Found myself coming down to relax and enjoy the area. We'd still have snow up here in early april. It's a 12 hour drive from PA to Aurora. I watched the season change as i ride south. From snow and blustery weather to seeing buds on the trees, grass on the ground, and red dirt on the roadside. By the time i get past Louisville, it's a whole new world.:) Bottomline is, i dont care if they impose a 10 fish, 15" size limit, You're going to see my lund floating around Jonathon creek and Ledbetter area every year until i cant make the trip anymore. I challenge myself every year to top my personal best there. It was 2lb 15 oz since 2002. I beat it last spring at 3lb 2oz. Come on 4lber.:D
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Well said Chaunc, my feelings exactly. I'll be there April 12 thru 19th. That's a great place to be.
My biggest was 16 1/2" but when I pulled it from the livewell to show it to my buddy, he reached in his livewell and pulled one out that was 17 1/2". My scale was broke so I don't know what they weighed.
That just doesn't happen here in the Southwest Ohio Lakes. No size limits, no possesion limits. People will keep all the 7"-8" crappie they can catch. A few select lakes have a nine inch size limit. Still no possesion limits. 9" to 10" are common. If it were all about how many fish I could bring home vs the money, I'd just buy them at the grocery, it would have to be cheaper.
CH I have read your posts and respect your opinion. I've posted my position on the reduced limits in the Ky. part of Ky. Lake and won't get on my soapbox again but... History has proven that reducing the limit alone in this lake is not working. Used to be no limit. Then 60. Then 30. Then 30 10 inch. Now 20 10 inch. Population still dropping. The new limit won't fix the problem! In 5 or 10 years it will be 15, you wait and see. Until they start focusing on more than just 1 part of the problem it ain't go'n away. They need put a stop to the netting in this lake. In the last 3 years I personally know of 2 commercial fishermen that got busted for illegal netting. Heck, 1 of them I saw the crappie in his boat. And you bet I reported him. TVA needs to stop dick'n with the water level so much. Suppimental stocking should be implimented. I could go on.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappieHound
Well I cought myself stepping up on that soapbox again. I'm done.
Rant on Wiskers rant on. You probaly know the area as well as anyone. I too think it is going to take more than what is being done. People going in with one limit and coming back out and getting a second limit also needs to be addressed. We have to police our own before it gets worse.
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Originally Posted by Wiskers
You're right on that problem too. I just stopped before I got to that one. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by klight1122
Somebody is going to have to get on a soap box before a few bad apples ruin it for everyone!
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Originally Posted by Wiskers
First of all, I don't pretend to be a biologist but I do know that something needs to be done. The reason I made that reference is more to the point of something needs to be done and it needs to be done now. If the limit won't work then let's find out what will before this deal gets out of control and there is a loss of quantity and quality for a whole generation of younger fishermen.
Wiskers...you're right the water management is terrible but they ain't managing it for us, we get what's left after power and flood control. I would like to think they could bring the water up a little earlier in the year to help with this problem but everything always looks easy when you don't have all the facts...and I don't when it comes to how much water they can safely bring in and still have enough room to drop it with the potential for flooding when Spring rains occur.
CS...I didn't say that you specifically were hoping the line and that's not even the point. The point is WHY people are hoping the line. I don't give one hair about in state vs. out of state. You got to buy a license to fish, or should, and that money is used for the betterment of our fisheries.
We have guys coming down from PA. to fish and dogonitt, I want to have a fishery here that will supoprt those fishermen coming here and catching quality fish.
I may not have the extensive background in fisheries science to figure out how to plug the hole but that doesn't mean the hole doesn't need plugg'n.
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The Hound
Sounds like we are on the same page after all. The new limit doesn't bother me. It doesn't mean I can't catch 30 or 40 fish, it means all I can keep is 20. No problem there. But like you just said and I've been saying for years, if something isn't done to address more than just 1 facit of the problem, my grandkids aren't gonna be able to catch crappie like I did with my granddad. And you know & I know that a large part of the local buisness go as the crappie fish'n goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappieHound
Good reply. Sounds like the hound is on the right track! :D
Thanks Wiskers...see what you brought out in me! LOL!
The BUSINESSES should be the one parading around the streets half naked beating thier chests for change! LOL!
If you're ever on Big Sandy give me a hollar. Look at my pics to see my boat.
Happy Fishing,
The Hound
Hey, I've got a buddy up here that owns a bait shop that's just about ready to do just that! I hope something positive happens soon cause I really don't want to see him naked! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappieHound
I may see ya down there one of these days. My brother-in-law and I have talked about a trip down there.
Well gotta go. Fix'n to go jerk the lips off a few today! :D
Well if ya come down let me know. I got a "few" waypoints that you may be interested in. :)
The Hound
Crappiehound, I'm new to the forum but fished Big Sandy for years..Seems like more and more boats every year and less fish..I teach school up here in Ky and only get to go on weekends and spring break and it's getting tougher to find a place to fish!
I think a good option would be to leave some areas such as the refuges and others closed to fishing until mid June to allow the fish in these areas to spawn out before being caught. Just my two cents.
I'm for keeping those areas closed...couldn't hurt. I haven't been fishing Big Sandy for all that long but the boat numbers are rising. Big Sandy is a great place to fish but it's still fishing and there are going to be days when you just can't get on em'. I have too many days like that but I have a few where it makes it all worth it.
Big Sandy is a good place for me to fish because it throwed most everything I've learned about fishing out the window. You have to learn to fish off shore structure and that's difficult to do when you never have experienced sitting out in the vastness and looking at a screen for directions. I enjoy learning new techniques but I'm ready to go shallow for some one on one action!
I'm just waiting for the water to stabilize and get up into the buckbrush. Got an area I want to try and wade fish this year. Be my first time for that. Can you say SNAKES! I don't like em'. LOL!
The Hound
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Originally Posted by chaunc
Been fishing KY lake all my life, but I've never caught a hog that big! Congrats on a heck of a fish!!!!
Got a stringer full of 2lber's that day. Fishing 27ft deep with spoons and shiners and tossing an eighth oz jig and tube. I'll add the picture later.Quote:
Originally Posted by caseydrew
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This will be a mess 30 in Tenn. and 20 in Ky. I guess the DNR people will have to check where you're licenses is from or maybe where you put in. Does anyone know which they'll use. Or will they check to see if you're across the state line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggerbear
maybe they'll just put a fence across the lake :D:D
Chaunc...how do fish those spoons. Do you tightline them with one pole in your hand? Do you add a minnow? That's interesting. That is one big fish you have there.
Congrats,
The Hound
I fished them tipped with a shiner minnow that day but when the water warms up over 60, i use a crappie nibble. I dead stick em. Use my Richard Williams rod in a holder tightline while i cast jigs and watch my locator.
I live around cincinnati, but wisker got me to thinkin ,over at brookville lake in Indiana they net these walleye every year , they milk the eggs out ,fertilize the eggs , in 9 days the eggs hatch they keep the fish until they become fingerlings and stock all the lakes in indiana with the fingerlings , If they would do that in ky lake , raiseing the lake would not be a problem , they could be sure that they had good spawns and hope fully things would improve in a few years . Just a thought .
We have a couple of small lakes in LBL (Honkers & Energy) that are just full of stunted Crappie. They should let some of us go in there and catch the small crappie and throw them into Ky & Barkley. I guarantee you can go to energy right now & catch 200 7" to 9" fish a day. Heck toss them over the levy. Problem is if you get checked and have them in the live well... BUSTED!